the latest news on the week's top stories unofficial tallies indicate egyptians have voted to bind the new draft constitution around one of the people told referendum that continues to split the fire with violence on the right. all the time said to be turning against the embattled syrian government as it struggles to to lead by the al qaeda linked rebels getting more assistance from abroad. president putin says it's now all never called on russia's lawmakers start of a pull economy to root out corruption and stand the outlaw outflow of the country's wealth.

this is all see broadcasting live from our brand new agey studios here in moscow i mean you leisure paula hello and a very warm welcome to the program to egypt for us too about the muslim brotherhood and its opponents are claiming that the country has now voted to bind the disputed draft constitution in round one of a referendum the claim was based on an official tallies the official results were not there now it's until after the next stage the draft will shape the i was trained by the islamists but has been slammed by the opposition correspondent belcher is in cairo for us. it has been a tense night here in the capital in cairo as people have been waiting for these key results on the referendum of the constitution in the last few hours we've got preliminary results of course fishel ones will come out of the second round which

indicates that it was a yes vote the muslim brotherhood together with media outlets numbers and matching up there saying approximately fifty six point five percent voted yes forty three percent point five percent voting no this will seem to being of course a major break the opposition forces particularly because in this round only two of the governor it's involved to the ten you voted actually voted no to the constitution this particular stage of the referendum was largely seemed to be the biggest chance for a no vote to the constitution as the governor it's involved actually voted against the president during the presidential elections so really right now the opposition forces are going to have to either drum up support in the next six days for the second round or final time it's a tactic to to to a campaign i think there will be heightened tensions of course i mean people have criticized the idea that the referendum respects in two days or the week in the middle with these results coming out because of course people are going to react to

them as we entered the late stages of the voting process which had been extended by several hours by the electoral commission because of high turnout there were violent scenes in the streets of cairo and. the one party headquarters for the opposition position three were tapped by suppose it supports is of has an arbor is a man who is an orthodox salafist leader one time presidential candidate one party did i reports that ultra conservative islamists torched their headquarters talking with firearms until the security forces did report injuries so really we'll have to see if the next week what happens in the build up to the second round this crucial rounds as the seventeen other governorates going to vote on this constitution. then going referendum will further distance the nation from any kind of consensus science journalist and middle east analyst ahmed front page. morsi is not showing any signs of flexibility he's not showing any signs of building

consensus and news shown to be a very stubborn as a person regardless of the outcome of the referendum the scene in egypt right now it's indicative that there is going to be a match. playing with the results there is already reports about money and sustenance is being given to poor people to encourage them to go out and vote favorably yes therefore the constitution and on the other side the egyptians are still divided into different groups and the more late edition of the voters are not going as it should be going so it's not really representative of the nation's whim or of the consensus that should have been sitting here.

syrian government forces on the receiving end of opposition offensives as the rebels make gains and battles across the country in the push towards dumbest because this comes after the opposition received another boost this week when that diplomatic status was grated by a group of nations who also donated more than one hundred million dollars to the un to assad count meanwhile nato is deploying its surface to air missiles and troops to neighboring turkey on current quests and they reinforcements from its allies after a series of cross border between there's a fire with syria alliance officials now playing the syrian government have begun using ballistic missiles against the rebels something denied by the mosque also he's going to trickle down takes a closer look at who is fighting against assad. was. they call themselves martyrs god and all those you see around you are the fighters you see are living martyrs and the loo. martyr has already sacrificed a soul for this country the syrian rebels say they will stop at nothing to defeat

us. some of them are so proud of their deeds that they post them on the web including the execution of prisoners. or having a child behead a man who was presumably an assault supporter atrocities are committed on all fronts during syria's bloody civil war according to many accounts on the ground islamist groups that do most of the fighting on behalf of the rebels dr towie come meet was a member of a jihadi spoken ization twenty five years ago he later became a vocal opponent of radical islam that you have this have no problem to behead people alive you didn't was people like bin ladin and there are because of al qaida who have no his shin to use any form of whip around to really. control any place. religious believes an ideology the so-called friends of syria including the gulf states the u.s. the u.k. and friends many morocco to throw their weight behind the newly formed syrian

opposition coalition two thirds of the islamic dominated entire south coalition has the highest of the muslim brotherhood and salafist and their idea of freedom for syria what. a positive sign for us the military struggle is characterized by being mostly islamic and of your cause martyrdom for the sake of allah has always been the main motive of people who are muslim and in what's seen as a symbolic attempt to distance themselves from terrorists in syria washington has designated one of the rebel groups a terrorist organization but the same syrian opposition that the us supports welcomes the efforts of groups like al nusra the decision of considering one of the factions fighting the regime is a terrorist organization should be reconsidered. this is a demonstration of support for almost in syria. heard chanting we are students of osama. people here in washington don't seem to understand that if you

don't like the government in cairo or if you do like the government in cairo i guess i should say then you will love the government the comes to power in damascus because you will see a sunni muslim islamised government a muslim brotherhood style government that is absolutely intolerant fundamentally hostile to the west washington has failed to officially denounce the many suicide bombings perpetrated by the rebels in syria preferring to focus on the wrongs committed by the assad regime alone the u.s. is also ramping up the rhetoric about the possibility of the assad government using chemical weapons against civilians something that damascus says would be suicidal on the other hand many rebels are not averse to the idea of suicide in the name of what they call holy war militants have recently taken control of a toxic chemical plant in the country's second city of aleppo a video was uploaded to youtube showing them testing chemical weapons on rabbits we

could not independently verify the authenticity of the footage. you will die like rabbits in its own words the assad government is fighting terrorists that has claimed thousands of innocent lives the measures the syrian government resorted to have been widely criticized but does that mean the world should keep their eyes shocked at who's actually fighting for power in syria now in washington i'm going to check out. earlier this week the lives of a persian hand russia's political elite on the edges of their seats in his first annual address to lawmakers since returning as president he unveiled tough new take corruption measures and a plan to stem the outflow wealth from the country and also called for a drastic overhaul of the resource based economy and to boost the social sector as well he's an exciting for. several years ago when former president medvedev addressed russia's lawmakers this signaled major constitutional changes for the country with the presidential term being extended to six years this time when

president putin delivered his first annual address after returning to the kremlin for the third time it ran no major sensations nor political changes but at the same time this speech was even more significant as some have already said than many others before this time put in barely spoke about any foreign policy issues the main focus was on domestic problems in russia and there has been with plenty according to russia's president in fact he started his speech by saying it is now or never as the world is going through a crisis russia must stand up to all these challenges and the first and the most correct way to do that is to invest in two youths richard is that what's that as of today the percentage of healthy active able bodied people in russia aged between twenty to forty is one of the highest in the world twenty years time this economically active population could shrink by fifty percent less we do something

this trend will continue but you either we provide interesting jobs give opportunities to create business build families raise children be happy with just a few decades russia will become a poor country populated by an elderly generation incapable of preserving its own territory. but the biggest issue dragging russia backwards for the past several decades has been the corruption among the higher echelons of power and that is why the largest chunk of putin's speech was dedicated to the struggle and the president came up with some very tough rhetoric and heard in all twelve years putin has been in politics in russia but no wonder it seemed at times that putin was not in stressing the whole russia and not for the whole world to see but he directed a stern warning to those. sitting in front of him in order that we could you know you can eat it but how can people trust an official or a politician who talks a lot about the good of russia where you live the same time trying to take his

money out of the country i ask you to support the bill to limit the amount of foreign account some stocks that officials and politicians can have. the people. don't applaud yet maybe you won't like everything i have to say but even put in will be holding an annual press conference for the world media and the eyes of the entire planet will again be on the russian president let's see russia. reporting from inside the kremlin. they eat you has received the nobel peace prize and also loans were poor later on the decision has piled one. plus heads as people throughout europe believe it doesn't deserve the award it is house carrying right up.

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choose me access to often. if you're watching l.c. welcome back the three presidents have received the nobel peace prize on behalf of the union the us had a grand ceremony in brussels was recognized for its efforts in promoting peace and democracy on the continent but even before the prize was handed out the nomination sparked mass controversy several former winners wrote to the nobel foundation demanding them beaten knew they stripped of their board and on the eve of the presentation hundreds joined the protest march from the norwegian campus so as often as these are all of a front ask those i'm not the only shows undermining the accord ability that's right humidity. mark or little show ram.

or one day level measure on the web a will not be judged by the call about them but by the content of their character are i would hire anyone it can be probably would have become a glorious if you can be assassinated however the nobel peace prize is only awarded to a living person this is when it takes such trying terror especially when it comes to finances the announcement the european union was to pick up the twenty twelve gong sparked heated debate the border has been discredited particularly to the outrage it picked it up recently so i see what has the eve done over the last twelve months to convince the nobel committee it's worthy of such a prestigious award. supported regime change in foreign countries and several member states indulged in violent crackdowns on demonstrators outraged by the failure of the governments. the reps skeptics and no to be devalued the

whole concept of that i'll be surprised what's really happening is that the european union is having its worst year ever but it's mates and international could be. coming due it's a brit to have been awarded of the announcement to be made in the very week that angela merkel went to athens greece it not just by tens of thousands of protesters but people dressed up in swastikas and giving it the salutes frankly i grew up with a europe that was divided from east to west but i'm now living in a europe that is divided from north to south and never at any point in the history of this union has there been more discord rancor that we currently got among more moderate forces there are concerns the peace prize is being used as a political football i think this award basically does a lot of kind of discredit past people who won this prize i mean it demonstrates a sort of heavy politicization of the use of this war and now it's been suggested

that this year's winner of the peace prize picked it up more for not having done something as opposed to having food the peace around the globe it seems like they got the prize more because there hasn't been any war in europe for many decades rather than having done anything specific i think as long as civic institutions like the nobel prize continue to lose their legitimacy in their spirit through political favoritism and these prizes are always political but such blatant and obvious political favoritism and maneuvering i think it actually takes something away and i think it's actually damaging leaves the whole institution with the price facing the question of whether the nobility the dream of the new teacher or the r t . then there's the wise they prize winning european union continues to battle economic and social turmoil increasingly more people in prison want turn out as stephen will spokes person for the u.k. independence party says his country would be far better off. but there is

a certain code of politicians and advisors in this country who are petrified that no longer. to be at the central table of europe enjoying the late night events and the flash cars and the hotels that they get the decision making the real buzz of being there but there are those like me that actually are party that believes that being outside of this particular would actually influence great great britain's influence would actually rise and we'd be able to trade more easily with the rest of the world because we're freed of these regulations at the moment you can see that even from the government's own statistics they show that recently trade with the rest of the world as risen dramatically whilst our trade with europe has actually fallen and that's not surprising to ourselves because we see that the rest of the world represent the east in asia or looking at south america or indeed the

middle east and then there's going to be a great push in africa there are countries with rising populations rising middle class that demand products we have expertise that could and should be used trading with. russian lawmakers on the verge of blacklisting a number of u.s. officials for alleged violations of human rights this comes after washington adult sanctions against some russians as part of this so-called magnitsky law let's now get the data the latest details from artie's tom boston hello tom so warsaw the reasons for this exchange of accusations and punishments then. hi there yulia yes barack obama has signed into law the american magnitsky bill which blacklist certain russian officials having been accused by the us of involvement in surrey game magnitsky is death so the magnitsky was a lawyer who allegedly uncovered massive corruption in russia involving russian

officials his friends and colleagues have said that he was then set up by those very same russian officials in two thousand and nine he died in prison having been imprisoned on what his supporters say were trumped up charges they also say that he was denied medical care and may have been beaten to death which led to this piece of u.s. legislation russia though has for a long time now railed against this legislation saying it is rank hypocrisy and that if the magnitsky bill was a part was passed it was attached to a piece of trade legislation then retaliation would come but a move putin has spoken out calling the new legislation totally unnecessary. the poignant intervention in the shitter. but frankly speaking i don't understand why our american colleagues are doing this most likely it's internal political

intrigue and little trouble when the foreign ministry has already called it the theater of the absurd but that's precisely what it is like which is a sort of game of need to his death was a tragedy but does nobody die in u.s. prisons and maybe even in greater numbers you'll hear that it is and listen for eighty years they have failed to show you around town a mowed down where people are kept without due process and are wearing shackles like in medieval times people who open secret prisons have legalized torture during investigations and now pointing out our drawbacks to new middle aged. and so now it seems the russian retaliation that was long promised is now shaping up russia's own bill doing roughly the same thing as the magnitsky bill has passed its first reading in the russian duma it's not known exactly who it's targeting but some possible examples of what russia a says those u.s. citizens accused by russia of breaching the human rights of russians for example

in the last ten years a number of russian children adopted by u.s. citizens have died or suffered to human rights abuses among those a boy who was left in a car in extremely hot temperatures and he died his name may indeed be attached to the bill as part of this search for tat squabble over human rights between russia and the u.s. there are a number of cases involving children and those have raised a lot of controversy among the russian population in the past years also possibly targeted maybe those that russia accuses the u.s. of illegally imprisoning or kill even. knapping russian citizens it's widely believed that that is a reference to victor boot who has been given

a twenty five year present prison sentence last year by u.s. prosecutors for arms trafficking they consider him a dangerous arms trafficker dubbing him the merchant of death but russia has long said that he was merely a russian businessman and that he was illegally imprisoned. in parts of this around having a relations between the countries in general. well this all affects the much the much hyped up reset between russia and the u.s. which was started in barack obama's first term now are russian lawmakers are eager to point out that the start of his second term he's passed what they consider very anti russian legislation and they have said that that will affect the reset it seems that that process of trying to improve relations has descended into this tit for tat arguments over issues which have been connected to this

wider reset in relations and officials in russia saying that that could damage the entire process beyond that there has already been a few concrete ramifications to this rather strange though one of the editors of komsomolskaya pravda of the russian newspaper was hours after the passing of this bill pranked he received a letter which are looked to all intents and purposes to come from the u.s. consulate saying that his visa had been revoked in connection with the magnitsky bill he some eyes that it was perhaps because of articles that his his newspaper had printed about this story but he had no idea why. his visa had been revoked he later found out though that he had been the subject of a prank and the u.s.

consulate said that it did not send that letter so whether the consequences are merely pranks involving certain russian figures or more seriously those involving human rights or relations between the u.s. and russia already this magnitsky bill is having deep relations you very much indeed for that extended a report. the reporting there live from moscow it's a bit chilly outside as a concert. iran's nuclear program came under the microscope again this week the yuan's atomic watched august trying to get access to a military facility where some western nations suspect nuclear weapons are being made more a short break. humanises day starts at five am even earlier in the winter tending to his flock of story

hundred sheep in the mountains in panes of t.v. thirty five years old it wasn't the life he dreamt of having studied accounting but he dition and familiar duty dictated that he would take on the care of these animals after his father. has just made camp at their winter found stage setting up his us judicial to fenian round tent made of diskin. his beastly back amongst his family as his job is a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving extremes of plus to minus forty degrees celsius just get on with them there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone my sister works with my mother my mother is seventy five she's very old and i miss mountains when i'm in town and i spend a lot of time here right now probably so on most of it i simply carrying out the work that his father did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries and that's half the problem it's hard work and many people don't

want to come into the industry now and it's really fit there could die out altogether. it's difficult to manage everything alone i used to have people who helped me but they were no good they didn't take care of the sheep with all their heart they hurt the cattle dogs. with more people leaving than coming to the countryside the regions government is having to act making the life of a herd and more attractive they're promising largest subsidies for livestock and organizing cooperatives for the sale of day products to ensure the herd are get so high a fair price i asked sympathizes with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life day in the public's capital because hill but he no longer wishes to join them he enjoys his pastoral way of life and looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm with more time on his hands he says matter of fact you can start to look for you wife.